Re: Rawhide install broken - Triage

[Allen Kistler <an037-ooai8 yahoo com>]

Adam Williamson wrote:
> On Tue, 2009-07-28 at 21:22 -0700, Chuck Forsberg WA7KGX N2469R wrote:
> > >  1.  Gigabyte ga-ep45-ud3p  Core Duo 8500, Nvidia Geforce 9600gt - screen
> > >  goes dark at point
> > >  where one would normally be asked for language
> >
> > try with 'vesa' or 'xdriver=vesa'. Sounds like a bug in nouveau. Are
> > multiple monitors connected to this system?
> >    
> I added both, no effect.  Tried stuff like that before.
> The fact that this happens, as I reported, before any obvious attempt
> to run X, suggests this particular problem is unrelated to X.
>
> Can't think what else it can be, but I can't remember if the language
> prompt is inside X or out of it, typically...anyone?

Skipping (or not skipping) the media check is in text mode.
Then anaconda runs (announcing its start in text mode) and starts X.
There's a do-nothing screen (Next).
Then there's the language selection screen.

Alt-Fn or Ctrl-Alt-Fn should work at that point.  In particular, F2 
should be handy.

There's always "nomodeset" to try, too.  Nouveau KMS is one of the 
objectives of F12 (isn't it?), but I don't know if it's been turned on yet.